Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 05:50:56 01/15/06
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On January 15, 2006 at 05:54:06, Harvey Williamson wrote: >On January 15, 2006 at 05:46:15, Henrik Dinesen wrote: > >>On January 14, 2006 at 20:24:32, Harvey Williamson wrote: >> >>>On January 14, 2006 at 18:14:28, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >>> >>>>Rolf, as much as i enjoy your interchanges for their soap opera quality, I don't >>>>think your accusations are quire fair. They rest on the assumption that Vasik >>>>is somehow manipulating us into promoting his product. >>>> >>>>I test the Rybka betas because it is fun. I think that is what motivates >>>>others. >>>> >>>>People here at CCC are very critical consumers. We are not being manipulated. We >>>>are having fun. >>>> >>>>best >>>>J >>> >>>Isn't the point here (I think it is fantastic marketing)that we are all paying >>>to be beta testers? >>> >> >>If you don't submit anything to Vas, you can't be counted as a tester in any >>way. >>But if you do, you don't have to wait long to see something happening. That's a >>good exchange, and some more established compagnies could learn a lot. Actually >>we saw a somewhat similar approach with Fruit when it turned commercial. >>I don't see anything bad here :) >> >>Henrik > > >Hi Henrik, > >I don't have a problem with it either. However I do wonder what the attitude of >posters here would be if CB sold software in a similar way? > >Best Wishes > >Harvey Nobody ever could address the following question or problem. ChessBase programs exist for 20 years and it's all very "developped". Bugs like in Rybka never appear. We all know that there are bugs and that not all the bugs could be corrected because in a "advanced" or "developped" software it often depends on very specific configurations on the PC of the sender. However in Rybka there are "beginner" bugs and of course such bugs can be solved in minutes in direct feedback. This then gives the users the impression that the makers of Rybka are in continual stand-by loops while ChessBase engineers are making holidays on Sumatra while the poor users are totally alone in Manhattan. Nobody could react on this uncomparable situation yet. What the hell did I do? Did I complain about the fine support and almost restless engagement of Vasik? Am I stupid enough to do this? No, of course I didnt do that. But I read here in CCC about GUI bugs in ChessBase as if that were beginners bugs that could as easily corrected as some nonsense still in Rybka where wants to play with 9 Pawns... All I said: cool down baby. ChessBase is a tower of a higher magnitude than Rybka. Rybka can well become a tower herself but attention: to be compared with ChessBase dear Vas must hold his support for the next twenty years and he must also build up a company with many partners and then a partner makes a fault and then people will ask for Vasik and claim that he's the evil of the 21. th century and that he's this or that. Nobody addressed the whole situation on such a level yet. Except me. :))
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